I have seen time and time again "don't use dbmopen because it is deprecated". I have seen people preface their posts with "I know dbmopen is deprecated and I should use tie, but this isn't my code and I need it fixed quickly", as though it was something to hide. I have seen responses to questions to "read the documentation on tie", but no concrete examples of how to do it.

Well, I am new to Perl and this was a little hard for me to swallow. I mean, it couldn't be that hard - right? Maybe - I only found one good example from a super search here, but it used DB_File, which isn't part of the core distribution. Through google searches, Perl docs, and some trial and error, I was able to come up with the following. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use AnyDBM_File;
use Fcntl;
tie (my %hash, "AnyDBM_File", "filename", O_CREAT|O_RDWR, 0600) or die
+ "Can't open database: $!\n";
# insert code for %hash here
untie %hash;

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BTW - The super search results came after the trial and error since it was the exact syntax that I got a hit on.

I verified this both on ActivePerl and on a HPUX installation. Is this the most acceptable way of doing this, or is there a better way? I said maybe earlier, because it is entirely possible that I just missed something obvious.

Thanks in advance,

Limbic~Region

In reply to To tie or to dbmopen by Limbic~Region

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